External Drive for Mac

[Kyouya]

Hello;

I've seen a bunch of external drives for Mac. What's the difference of them? Hard Drive is an hard drive, it should work just fine as long as you format it properly, right?

 

[Hellhammer]

"Mac hard drives" are just HFS+ formatted, while Windows ones are NTFS, and yes, Windows HD works flawlessly if you reformat it. Stores just want extra money with Mac label on it

 

[a*ho]

sorry to butt into your thread..

but Will it be okay if i share a HD with my mac and pc?

 

[Hellhammer]

sorry to butt into your thread..

but Will it be okay if i share a HD with my mac and pc?

Of course. I have NTFS partitions in my externals as well so if my iMac fails and I need to access my files in externals, the most important ones are in NTFS partition too.

 

[Kyouya]

My 200gig Freeagent for Mac was running out of space(Vista + OS X, ugh) so I ended up buying a 500gig Freeagent. The only difference is the back up software, which doesn't matter after Time Machine.

So yeah, they are indeed the same.

 

[cluthz]

I thought the Mac Freeagent had FW800 and PC version eSata?